Talking to your Sony Bravia TV over HTTP with Google Now, Tasker, XBMC, and Roku

Using Tasker, AutoVoice, Yatse and XBMC, I built a custom Google Now (‘OK Google’) command to play/pause media on my Sony Bravia TV. With a few modifications, it now works across all the apps on my Sony Bravia TV, my XBMC (now called Kodi) box, and my NowTV/Roku box too. Take that Siri! Not bad for half an hour’s work… I followed this tutorial to get the very basics started, and used the ‘Send int